Barnala, April 14 -- Three persons robbed Rs.70,000 from a liquor vend near the Barnala jail road, Rs.22,000 from another vend in Sukhpura Maur village in Tapa besides unsuccessfully targeting two more such facilities in the district on Saturday, police officials said.

Barnala deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Satvir Singh said efforts are being made to arrest the three suspects.

The first incident was reported from a liquor vend in Badbar village where three persons arrived on a bike. While one of them with covered face, armed with a country-made pistol, stood guard outside, the other two threatened the salesman and directed him to hand over all the cash to them. One of them used a blunt weapon to smash the vend's protective grill....